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FuturePastNow posted:4-engine prop planes are rad and if I were a rich in need of executive transport, instead of a jet I'd get a Dash-7 luxed out If I were so rich that "rich" is a valueless concept, then I'd have a turbo-converted Boeing Clipper. the milk machine posted:that reminds me of the lear fan 2100 I thought these were super common because I saw one hanging in some random museum in OKC and also at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Turns out I'd just randomly walked into places that had 2/3 of the entire population.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:If I were so rich that "rich" is a valueless concept, then I'd have a turbo-converted Boeing Clipper. I love the idea of a flying boat as an air/sea yacht, but I'd want an airframe that isn't 80-odd years old.
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mllaneza posted:I love the idea of a flying boat as an air/sea yacht, but I'd want an airframe that isn't 80-odd years old. C-130 with huge pontoons
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mllaneza posted:I love the idea of a flying boat as an air/sea yacht, but I'd want an airframe that isn't 80-odd years old. All new build, of course. The concept that things have cost has lost meaning in this fantasy, which is good, because I could buy a 747 from the boneyard for less.
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Well in that scenario a catalina simply isn't vinebago enough anymore, hello Short Sunderland Martin Mars and Saunders-Roe Princess
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Well in that scenario a catalina simply isn't vinebago enough anymore, hello Short Sunderland Martin Mars and Saunders-Roe Princess i mean, why not just go all the way and pick up a spruce goose then can probably get it to fly with just a couple turboprops these days 
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Truga posted:i mean, why not just go all the way and pick up a spruce goose then Now that’s a truly worthless vanity project for some bored billionaire.
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Safety Dance posted:Wouldn't it be called AC-33? Maybe, maybe not. It wasn't actually produced so it doesn't count, but stuff like that does sometimes get noticed and used. And yeah there are a bunch of options because the USAF wants to use all the numbers on 747s.
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Truga posted:i mean, why not just go all the way and pick up a spruce goose then More realistically, I think the Hawaii Mars is still for sale.
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the milk machine posted:are there any fun facts / hot takes about the dash 7 or 8 (other than being canadian)? There’s a video somewhere of a Dash-7 hovering over the runway, then flying backward a bit before touching down. Transport Canada still flies one for pollution surveillance. They have extremely good cameras. I moon it every chance I get. The Twin Otter is still in widespread service, especially for “lol runway” applications.
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FrozenVent posted:There’s a video somewhere of a Dash-7 hovering over the runway, then flying backward a bit before touching down. This one? It doesn’t exactly fly backwards but the landing they show off is pretty absurd. https://youtu.be/ezjfU4KtZtc
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:If I were so rich that "rich" is a valueless concept, then I'd have a turbo-converted Boeing Clipper. Hear me out: Turbo Constellation
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My Airship Flights by Capt. George Meager Excerpts from a book in a series of short, low effort posts Sorry this is late, the death of a friend made posting no fun. One of the last things he said to me that while he hated air travel and domestically always drove or used trains, he'd be down for airship flying. Just FYI, I've no idea if this origin story is true or not. Er, where the word blimp comes from, not if Meager saw porpoises  One pilot nicknamed the Count, mwa ha ha ha! Amazing name: Flt. Lt. Roach-Smith. Also, Meager, Rope, your fuel filter is getting clogged with mud? That's not normal for gas engines.   Meager gets advanced to being a Coastal class pilot. Pilots, check out this control system  Classic British understatement; yeet the jacket  Airships: like sailing ships with more turnbuckles  "There's your problem: engine isn't screwed into its mount."  Flying in thick fog with one or no engines  Now I'd be worried about machine-gunning a naval mine for fear it would explode  Don't ask me what the funeral procession took a break to do  There were two industrial methods for refining hydrogen during the First World War: one that sprayed superheated steam at iron to create rust and hydrogen, and the "ferrosilicol" process: quote:Thanks to some help from the Airship Trust who lent me some Hydrogen Manuals I can describe the silicol process as follows. Powdered ferrosilicon is fed in a controlled manner into a closed stirred tank containing a very hot, strong solution of caustic soda. The ferrosilicon reacts rapidly with the caustic soda, producing a mixture of steam and 99% pure hydrogen. Usually the gas is passed through cold water in a "scrubber" to condense the steam, collect the hydrogen and remove some of the (poisonous) impurities. The chemical reaction produces a lot of heat, which is used to keep the temperature of the tank at around 115 C. A residue consisting mainly of sodium silicate ("water glass") is left in the liquid in the tank. When the batch of caustic soda has become exhausted, the tank must be drained as soon as possible, otherwise the residue will solidify in the tank. 'Caustic soda' being Lye. So this process is reacting the slag left over in blast furnaces (mix of sand, IE silicon and iron) slowly, because the reaction is very energetic with the...high test Lye? and the product is steam and hydrogen, so all of this has to be pressurized, too. So I came across this in a book I read, and I was confused until I read what 'caustic soda' was  Speaking of accidents, Ft. Lt. Hogg-Turnover had a wild ride  7 hours on top of a blimp with a machine gun  Commodore Tyrrwitt   Emergency landing in an airship:   Next time: the Italian Job  The Author: 
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Zoodpipe posted:https://twitter.com/mr_jce/status/1623328115039563781?s=61&t=nvJvEih-BvVPWYxbJom7Ag That tweet got taken down but someone posted another copy in the OSHA thread. I didn't catch it on the first view (in the tiny embedded window) but it's a simulation based on flight data https://twitter.com/Brewjew308/status/1623449350679707648
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mobby_6kl posted:That tweet got taken down but someone posted another copy in the OSHA thread. I didn't catch it on the first view (in the tiny embedded window) but it's a simulation based on flight data The distances and scale of that simulation seems wrong. Or, at least if the aircraft models and distances are correct the camera parameters differ drastically from human eyesight.
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mobby_6kl posted:That tweet got taken down but someone posted another copy in the OSHA thread. I didn't catch it on the first view (in the tiny embedded window) but it's a simulation based on flight data So who was filming this and why can't we hear their screams e: nevermind Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 11, 2023 |
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FuturePastNow posted:Hear me out: Turbo Constellation I'm in for phase 1 of your plan. Phase 2 better be amphibious.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So who was filming this and why can't we hear their screams Looks to be a screengrab from X-Plane 12. Coincidentally, both a 737-800 and A330-300 are default planes for that... but not a 767, which is what the Austin incident actually involved.
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FuturePastNow posted:4-engine prop planes are rad and if I were a rich in need of executive transport, instead of a jet I'd get a Dash-7 luxed out hell yes. propellors are much classier than the bougie turbofan Ardeem posted:Phone posting, but deHavilland 86. this kicks so much rear end Mao Zedong Thot posted:doubleender super cub whoah this thing is sweet
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Nebakenezzer posted:So who was filming this and why can't we hear their screams New FS2020 feature: inane ambient dialog! [*]in ground external views, you can now hear plane spotters incorrectly identifying aircraft and expressing shock at both normal and abnormal procedures Additional content during cruise above 18,000ft includes: [*]in the cockpit if you choose the right seat of an airliner enjoy over 12 hours of new true to life monologuing based on feedback from actual first officers! [*]from the captain’s seat, now experience hours of voice work from actual first officers at legacy US carriers including “uh huh”, “wow”, “that was before I was born” and more!
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I assume that takeoff is empty. Probably, but the entire business model for the Dash-7 was to convert downtown parking lots into STOLports for businessmen going from city to city for business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_STOLport It didn’t go anywhere.
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That was the whole deal at LCY and then it was successful and it became worthwhile to extend the runway to accommodate larger jets. Victim of their own success!
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hobbesmaster posted:New FS2020 feature: inane ambient dialog! Non-optional feature: The inclusion of that creepy guy who keeps talking about the worst thing that could still happen while having a weirdly aroused look on his face instead of a concerned one whenever something abnormal happens.
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Another day, another mystery object floating around https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/norad-shoots-down-unidentified-object-over-yukon-pm-trudeau-says-1.6270114 quote:Norad shot down an "unidentified object" over Yukon on Saturday, an act Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he ordered after the object violated Canadian airspace
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Warbird posted:The next Top Gun movie is gonna be a weird one. Tom Cruise vs the carnival
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slidebite posted:Another day, another mystery object floating around Pathetic that we need the US to defend our seniority, this would have never happened if Trudeau hadn’t cancelled the CF-105 program.
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Warbird posted:The next Top Gun movie is gonna be a weird one. I still think the entire movie is him in Purgatory undoing all the rotten poo poo he'd done in life. The entire message of the movie is "righting wrongs done."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I still think the entire movie is him in Purgatory undoing all the rotten poo poo he'd done in life. The entire message of the movie is "righting wrongs done." What did the North Iranians ever do to him?
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Always funny to remember that there's one Iranian pilot who has more F-14 kills than every US Tomcat pilot combined.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:At this rate they should start sending up F-15s,.16s, 18s, and 35s so all those platforms can get themselves a kill and a sweet balloon painted under the canopy. Bring back the YF-12.
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madeintaipei posted:Bring back the YF-12. Sidewinder rails on the TR-1s.
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